Section 4 – CS360 NCAA Notebook (11/19/11)

By Pete LaFleur (editor@collegesoccer360.com)note: all research contained below is courtesy of CollegeSoccer360.com (please credit accordingly when reprinting or referencing this data) ... this historical information will be updated several times throughout the 2011 NCAAs

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Amber Brooks (left) is part of a North Carolina program that reached the quarterfinals during each of the first 22 seasons of Division I women's soccer (1982-2003; UNC now has been eliminated in the round-of-16 four times in the past eight seasons, '04/'07/'10/'11)

Notes: BC in 2009 advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals for the first time since 1985 ... WFU had failed to reach the quarters in each of its first 13 NCAA appearances ('96-'08).

CONFERENCE ENTRIES IN THE QUARTERFINALS – During the past 11 seasons (2001-11), dating back to the first year of the NCAA 64-team format, the Atlantic Coast Conference has led the way with 26 total entrants in the quarterfinals/final-8 (2.4 per year) ... next on that list is the Pacific-10/12 with 16 quarterfinalists from 2001-11, followed by the West Coast Conference (13), BIG EAST (12), Big Ten (9), Big 12 (6) and Southeastern Conference (2) ... the ACC, Pac-10/12 and WCC combined to produce 63% of the quarterfinalist teams (55 of 88) spanning the 2001-11 seasons ... the top-six conferences on this list – ACC, Pac-10/12, BIG EAST, WCC, Big Ten and Big 12 – combined to produce 93% of the teams in the quarterfinals (82 of 88) from 2001-11.

2 teams – West Coast Conference (3 in round-of-16)2 team – Big 12 Conference (6 in round-of-16)1 team – Southeastern Conference (3 in round-of-16)1 team – Ivy League (3 in round-of-16)1 team – Mountain West (1 in round-of-16)1 team – Conference USA (2 in round-of-161 team – Big West (2 in round-of-16)

THEY MEET AGAIN – The 2009 seasons marked the fourth straight season that Notre Dame and Florida State faced off in the NCAA quarterfinal round or later (ND won 2-1 in the 2006 semifinals, FSU 2-1 in the '07 semifinals, ND 2-0 in the '08 and '09 quarters), with FSU’s recent loss at Stanford in the quarterfinals bringing an end to the ND-FSU lateseason streak ... Tallahassee was the fourth different site for an ND-FSU postseason game in the past four seasons ('06 in Cary, N.C.; '07 at Texas A&M; '08 at ND; '09 at FSU) ... in the history of the Division I women's soccer tournament (since 1982), there have been only seven times that two teams have battled three (or more) consecutive years with so much on the line (quarterfinals or later) – including Stanford vs. Boston College spanning the past three seasons (all Cardinal wins, see below) ... Portland and UCLA faced each other three straight seasons (2005-07) in the NCAA quarterfinals, semifinals or title game – but that rare streak ended in 2008 (they could have met in the '08 final – Portland lost to Stanford in the quarters and UCLA's season ended vs. UNC in the semifinals; UCLA then beat Portland in the '09 quarterfinals) ... the growing ND-FSU postseason rivalry is tied for the longest streak of consecutive quarter/semi/final meetings (tied with UNC vs. N.C. State from 1988-91).